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The Home Counties from London by train Walking Guidebook - OS Pathfinder Guides
The all-revised edition contains 27 carefully selected walks, all chosen to be easily accessible from London's main railway stations. The routes lie across Essex, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent. With routes ranging from 2 to 11 miles - offering something for everyone. Each route includes the station (and time from Central London), an extract of the OS Explorer map showing the route and waypoints, notes on the route, and useful information on this history of the area. This is the perfect book for those looking to find beautiful countryside walks accessible from the capital.Previous editions of this book were called 'Country walks near London'.
What walks are inside The Home Counties from London by train Walking Guidebook?
- Northchurch Common & the Grand Union Canal
- The Naze and Walton Channel
- Aldbury, Ivinghoe Beacon and Ashridge
- Stour Valley: Constable Country
- White Notley and Cressing
- Newport and Debden
- Hollingbourne and Thurnham
- Shoreham and Lullingstone Park
- Pevensey Levels
- Around Battle
- Sandwich and Sandwich Bay
- Iden from Rye
- Wye and Crundale Downs
- Arlington and Abbot’s Wood
- Arundel Park and the River Arun
- Fishbourne and Bosham
- The Wey & Arun Canal from Billingshurst
- Limpsfiel
- Witley to Haslemere via Chiddingfold
- Gomshall to the Abingers
- Box Hill
- Great Kimble
- Marlow and the Thames
- Goring
- Windsor and Eton
- Chesham and Little Missenden
- Lardon Chase, Moulsford and Streatley

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